I should probably wait and see what I've forgotten in the next few days before saying it's final. I edited the '70s one about a dozen times after I posted it. If it's not a problem, just tabulate mine when you do all the rest.

trout mask replica is # 1.

Hey....can compilations like NUGGETS boxset count ?

...no. Nuggets didn't come out until much later. If it had come out in one collection in the 60s we would let it count, but I can't really see how it would be feasible to include it. But there are quite a few good records from bands on that comp. Strawberry Alarmclock is going to get a spot in my list, I think.

True, but the problem with 90% of the groups on the comp, and the reason the comp was so good, is that they were really singles bands. Even those that had whole albums out, and many of them didn't, had the song that's on Nuggets, maybe one more original and all the standard blues covers. Granted that was even the case for first albums by major groups like the Stones and the Kinks, but those groups did go on to write lots of classic original songs, and did better versions of the blues songs than most (though not all) of the garage bands.

1. White Light White Heat/Trout Mask Replica

ill finish the 50 within the next few days, but this is gonna take a lot of rock and jazz sorting out.

2. Albert Ayler-Spiritual Unity/Sonny Sharrock-Black Woman
3. John Coltrane-Ascension
4. Sun Ra-Atlantis/Art Ensemble of Chicago-A Jackson in Your House
5. Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
6. Jimi Hendrix-Axis: As Bold as Love/The Rolling Stones-The Aftermath
7. AMM-AMMusic
8. John Fahey-Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes
9. The Grateful Dead-Anthem of the Sun
10. MC5-Kick out the Jams
11. The Velvet Underground and Nico
12. King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King
13. Peter Brotzzman-Machine Gun
14. Blue Cheer-Vincebus Eruptum
15. Cromagnon-Orgasm
17. The Kinks-Are the Village Green Preservation Society
18. The 13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere
19. The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed/Aftermath
20. John Fahey-Anthem of the Sun
21. Ornette Coleman-Free Jazz
22. Charles Mingus-Tijuana Moods/Ah Um
23. Changes-Fire of Life
24. The Who-Sell Out
25. The Stooges-S/t
26. Cecil Taylor-Nerfetti the Beautiful One has COme
27. Stockhausen-Microphonie 2
28. Miles Davis-In a Silent Way
29. Iannis Xenakis-Polytope
30. Soft Machine-Volume 2
31. The Incredible String Band-The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
32. The Godz-Contact High wit the Godz
33. La Monte Young-The Well Tuned Piano
34. The Monks-Black Monk Time
35. The Velvet Underground-S/T
36. The Grateful Dead-American Beauty
37. Bob Dylan-Bringing it All Back Home
38. Robbie Basho-The Falconer's Arm
39. Jimi Hendrix and the Experience-Are You Experiened (UK)
40. The Kinks-The Kink Kontroversy/Os Mutantes-S/T
41. The Marzette Watts Ensemble
42. Derek Bailey-Karyobin
43. Sun Ra-The Heliocentric Worlds/The Electric Prunes-Underground
44. Pharoah Sanders and Sonny Sharrock-Tauhid
45. The Beatles-The White Album
46. James Brown-Live at the Apollo
47. Cecil Taylor-Conquistadors
48. Ayler-Live at the Village Vanguard
49. Amon Duul 2-Phallus Dei/Silver Apples-Contact
50. Terry RIley-In C
51. Pearls Before Swine-One Nation Underground
52. Buffalo Springfield-The Last Time Around
53. Tyrannasaurus Rex-Unicorn
54. Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow
55. The Rollong Stones-At Thier Satanic Magesties Request
56. Blue Cheer-OutsideInside
57. The Flamin Groovies-Super Snazz
58. The Pretty Things-S.F. Sorrow
59. Sly and the Family Stone-STAND!

dude amazing lists for reals

1959

^Only the Ornette Coleman was 1959.

I don't think Albert Ayler or Sonny Sharrock started their recording careers until well into the 1960s. I don't think fugazifan is much of a jazzfan.

ur right on ornette

Ah. Here is something that has really changed about our culture that started in the 60s. We're doing a best albums thread about a decade when people weren't concerned with (or rather weren't allowed to be) making album oriented music.

no i just misquoted him, i meant to only quote the ornette coleman...
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This is my problem with this round - I can't think of a great many whole albums from the 60s that I think are great. Loads of singles, but albums-wise I'm going to be stuck in the 'contemporary classical'/ jazz vein. Unless I just say the Shaggs 49 times with the Monks at number 50.

I'm compiling my final list and I'm having a hard time remembering great soul/funk albums of the sixties. Yet, most of the really great raw underground stuff was and still remains singles only.

Alas, Senor Glice, you of all must remember that The Shaggs were really a 50's boy band, no?

True enough. I was noticing how many of my favorite albums of the '60s came out in 1969, and that plays into it even further. The decade began as a singles one and ended as an album one. The Beatles obviously pushed that direction, though others followed suit. Meanwhile there were so many great garage bands who really could only scrape up the money for a '45 and so put everything into those two 4 minute bursts energy wise that the people with real backing and popularity put into 45 minute LPs.

We were talking about this on another thead a while ago. The 1950s was a singles decade, and this went on into the first half of the 1960s.

Many albums of the period were essentially "best ofs", singles compilations. And often compilations with a great deal of second-rate fillers.

Which is why I agree with this:

And on the subject of albums, this is on Radio 2 tonight.

Thanks. I'll make a point of tuning into that tonight.

EDIT. I had to dump my list again. this is just far too difficult.